Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
Susan Astley, PhD; Professor, Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics
Director, Washington State FAS Diagnostic & Prevention Network.
Research interests: Primary and secondary prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders through screening, diagnosis, intervention, surveillance, training, and research.
Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD, MPH; Professor, Family Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Health Services
Research interests: Access to care for underserved communities, rural health, health workforce, administrative database linkage, perinatal care, practice-based research.
Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH; Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health Nursing
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Services
Research interests: Effective public health practice system development, public health financing, management of public health practice, public health nursing leadership, public health workforce development issues.
Forrest Bennett, MD; Professor, Pediatrics, Clinical Training Unit
Director, High Risk Infant Follow-up Clinic; Director, Pediatric Medical Student Program; Director, Pediatric WWAMI Program
Research interests: developmental disabilities and children with special health care needs.
Doris Boutain, PhD, RN ; Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health Nursing
Research interests: stress and preterm labor risk, health disparities, marginalized populations and communities.
Noel Chrisman, PhD, MPH; Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health Nursing
Adjunct Professor: Health Services, Anthropology, Family Medicine.
Affiliations: Seattle Partners for Healthy Communities; REACH 2010.
Research interests: cultural competence; community-based participatory research.
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH; Professor of Pediatrics
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability.
Affiliations: Director, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Hospital.
Research interests: effects of media on child health and development.
Frederick A. Connell, MD, MPH; Associate Dean, School of Public Health
Professor of Health Services; and Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology and Pediatrics
Research interests: community assessment; Medicaid; maternal and child health policy; pediatric services; measurement of health status and quality of life; early life as predictors of health status.
Todd Edwards, PhD, MA; Research Assistant Professor, Health Services
Investigator, Seattle Quality of Life Group
Affiliations: Center for Disability Policy and Research
Research interests: Development and validation of patient-reported measures of symptoms, function, and quality of life; integration of patient-reported measures into clinical practice, decision making, and assessment of treatment outcomes.
Daniel A. Enquobahrie, PhD, MPH, MD; Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Affiliations: Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center
Research interests: Cardiovascular/perinatal epidemiology, developmental origins, genetic/molecular epidemiology (transcription and post-transcription regulation), international research.
James Gaudino, MD;
Immunization Medical Epidemiologist, Oregon Dept. of Human Services Immunization Program
Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Div. of Reproductive Health; Oregon Health Sciences University Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
Research interests: socioeconomic and behavioral determinants associated with adverse health outcomes; racial/ethnic health and health care disparities; genetic and pathologic mechanisms associated with socio-demographic health risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes; evaluating interventions and treatments for poor MCH outcomes; evaluating prevention, screening and treatment programs among at-risk populations; evidence-based clinical and public health practices; fetal and perinatal risk factors associated with pediatric and adult diseases.
Maxine Hayes, MD, PhD, MPH; Washington State Health Officer
Clinical Professor, Health Services
Maxine.Hayes@DOH.WA.GOV; 360-236-4018
Affiliations: Clinical Professor, Departments of Health Services and Pediatrics
Research interests: health disparities; closing the gaps; chronic disease prevention and its links to MCH.
Victoria Holt, PhD, MPH; Professor, Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Health Services; Member (Joint), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Research interests: intimate partner violence; endometriosis; women's reproductive health.
Donna Johnson, PhD; Associate Professor, Nutrition
Associate Director, Center for Public Health Nutrition
Research interests: public health nutrition; evaluation; effects of policies and environments on nutrition behaviors.
Brian Johnston, MD, MPH; Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Services
Research interests: injury prevention, implementation research.
Mary A. Kernic PhD, MPH; Research Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center
Research interests: Intimate partner violence, injury epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology.
Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH; Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Services
Research interests: Quality of health care assessment, quality improvement intervention evaluation, physician-parent communication.
John McLaughlin, MD; Professor, Pediatrics
Director, Clinical Training Unit, CHDD
Director, Neurodevelopmental Program, CHRMC
Research interests: cerebral palsy; spasticity management; health care services for children with disabilities; interdisciplinary health care; training of health professionals.
Mary Anne Mercer, DrPH; Senior Lecturer, Global Health
Senior Lecturer, Health Services
Deputy Director, Health Alliance International
Research interests: social, economic and cultural factors affecting the health of women and children, including effects of international trade and globalization; factors affecting women's access to and use of family planning and other reproductive health services.
Peter Milgrom, DDS; Professor of Dental Public Health Sciences
Director of the Northwest/Alaska Center to Reduce Oral Health Disparities
Director of the Dental Fears Research Clinic
Adjunct Professor, Health Services
Research interests: effects of xylitol on dental caries; behavioral and pharmacological management of fearful and phobic dental patients; access to dental care for children from low-income families.
Wendy Mouradian, MD; Professor of Pediatric Dentistry
Associate Dean for Regional Affairs and Curriculum, School of Dentistry
Adjunct Professor, Health Services
Research interests: Oral health in MCH populations; education of medical and dental professionals in oral care of MCH populations; quality of life in children with craniofacial conditions; ethical issues in health policy.
Beth A. Mueller, DrPH MPH; Professor, Epidemiology
Scientific Coordinator, Epidemiology Data Resource
Member, Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Research interests: Prenatal exposures and pregnancy outcomes; reproductive exposures and cancer outcomes in women and children; pregnancy outcomes in cancer survivors; adminstrative, surveillance, and environmental database linkage studies.
Michael Neufeld, MD; Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Research interests: evaluation and improvement of the neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm infants; infection and/or inflammation and its impact on neurodevelopmental outcome; retinopathy of prematurity; cerebral palsy.
Riley Peters, PhD; Director, Surveillance & Evaluation, Office of Healthy Communities, Washington State Department of Health
Research interests: use of data and science in policy and decision making, link between maternal and child health and chronic disease.
Greg Redding, MD
; Professor, Pediatrics
Head, Pulmonary Division, Pediatric Pulmonary Center
Affiliations: Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center: Chief, Chest Clinic; Director, Sleep Program.
Research interests: pediatric pulmonary and respiratory disease and treatment; respiratory syncytial virus; community and inpatient management of asthma.
Christine Riedy, PhD, MPH; Research Associate Professor, Dental Public Health Sciences
Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Health Services
Research interests: socio-cultural oral health disparity; prevention in oral health; prevalence and transmission of cariogenic bacteria in young children.
Fred Rivara, MD; Professor, Pediatrics
Head, General Pediatrics Division; Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Research interests: pediatric injury prevention, intimate partner violence, transportation related injury, firearm violence and injury, evidence-based medicine, trauma systems.
J'May Rivara, MSS, LICSW; Practicum Coordinator and Lecturer, School of Social Work
Advisor, Concurrent MSW/MPH Program, School of Social Work
Research interests: health care; assessment in spectrum of health care settings; primary care; childhood injury; research in childhood head injury.
James Stout, MD, MPH; Professor, Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor, Health Services
Affiliations: Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center; Child Health Institute; National Initiative on Children's Healthcare Quality; QI Partners.
Research interests: childhood asthma health services research, asthma quality improvement, child healthcare quality improvement, development and evaluation of computer-based training tools.
Elaine Thompson, PhD, RN; Professor Emeritus, Psychosocial & Community Health Nursing
Principal Investigator, Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program
Research interests: intervention and evaluation research; advanced multivariate analytic techniques; measurement and instrument development; testing intervention theory; suicide prevention and school dropout prevention research.
Ann Vander Stoep, PhD, MS; Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Co-Director, Developmental Pathways Research Program, Child Health Institute
Research interests: developmental epidemiology of adolescent depression; transition to adulthood for adolescents with psychiatric disorders; co-morbidity in child psychiatric disorders; developing, implementing, and disseminating promising children's mental health interventions; participatory research.
Leslie R Walker, MD; Professor and Chief, Adolescent Medicine Section, Division of General Pediatrics
Director, Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital
Research interests: parental impact on adolescent risk behaviors, parental perception of early sexual activity in 5th and 6th graders, adolescent pregnancy prevention, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and substance abuse, adolescents with chronic illness transitioning into adult care systems.
